sidingn.

Brit.

/ˈsʌɪdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈsaɪdɪŋ/

Forms: late Middle English sidyng, 1600s syding, 1600s–1800s sideing, 1600s– siding.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side n.¹, -ing suffix¹; side v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < side n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, and partly < side v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

I. The action or an act of side v.¹

†1.

a. Perhaps: the repairing or forming of the sides of a ploughshare. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1432 Bailiff's Acct., Grantchester in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) For sidyng of ij scharys there.

b. Perhaps: the action of providing a plot of land with visible edges. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > field systems > laying out fields

siding1610

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Collaterage Actiue, as siding, furrowing,..impayling, immuring [etc.].

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 139/1 Collaterage, is Siding, Furrowing, Hedging, Girding, Bordering, Lying, Bounding, Extending between such places.

c. U.S. The action or process of trimming the sides of timber to give it the desired width. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > dressing timber

slabbing1703

siding1824

1824 Mechanic's Mag. 15 May 150/1 Many a piece of valuable compass timber is spoiled for particular purposes, by taking off so much in the siding of the piece.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2175/1 Siding,..that part of the operation of forming or trimming ship's timbers, etc., which consists in giving them their correct breadths.

1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 5 Nov. The machinery first put in included a mulay and a siding mill.

a. The action of taking sides in a conflict or debate; one's allegiance or loyalty in a dispute; partisanship, factionalism.Common in the 17th cent.

(a) Without construction. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism

partiality1520

partaking1533

factiona1538

factiousness1572

siding1600

side-taking1626

parting1652

partying1681

party spirit1705

party1726

party feeling1796

partyism1831

partisanship1834

factionism1848

partisanism1850

factionalism1855

partisanry1889

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 12 The desire of soveraigntie..perplexed their minds. But as yet, there was no banding nor siding from any one person in particular [L. necdum ad singulos..pervenerat].

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Heb. x. 25) It was then, it was afterwards, and is still in these siding and separating times.

a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. iv. 57 For Sideing is a madnes, where the Hand Acts to a Somewhat we but vnderstand In the Relations.

1661 R. Baxter Last Work of Believer in Wks. (1846) 255 She was seriously religious without any taint of siding or faction.

1716 J. Perry State of Russia 154 They had been removed on account of their siding in the aforemention'd Rebellion.

1823 Christian's Pocket Mag. Nov. 613 The Wesleyan Missionaries have been thrown into prison, on account of their siding in the late rebellions of the slaves, in Demerara.

2007 D. E. Davis Tomorrow is Better 33 He knew their names, addresses, families, companies, and most of all, their siding in the war.

(b) With against or with.

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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. 864 Their siding with the Romane enemies [L. quod hostibus se Romanorum iunxissent] should not be laid to their charge.

1623 T. Powell Attourneys Acad. 18 Any other apparant cause of partiality, or siding with eyther party.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 421 By reason of his siding with the Muscovian Merchants.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 219 Roe was a close Servant of Monmouth's: Which comes vile near siding against his Master and Benefactor, the Duke of York.

1749 tr. J. B. L. Crevier Rom. Hist. XIV. xlvii. 223 His aversion to Pompey..did not prevent his siding with him, as soon as he saw him at the head of the honester part.

1837 W. Wallace Contin. Mackintosh's Hist. Eng. VII. x. 365 His siding in council with lord Halifax.

1881 W. D. Howells Dr. Breen's Practice iv. 71 You're very kind!..And you'll forgive my siding against you?

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Jan. 6/1 The clear-headed parish priest, whose siding heart and soul with his people is to my mind proof conclusive that they have right on their side.

1908 Spink & Son's Numismatic Circ. Sept. 10859/1 He issued a medal of Duke John George I. of Saxony on his siding in war against the Emperor.

1972 Internat. Organization 26 iv. 696 Heath can afford himself the luxury of siding with Brandt.

2010 Afr. Today 57 ii. 16 The siding of ECOWAS leaders with one faction or the other unnecessarily escalated the conflict.

b. An instance of taking or forming sides; a side or faction in a conflict or debate.Common in the 17th cent.

†(a) Without construction. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism > instance of

siding1603

1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Ep. Ded. p. i The turbulent tempests and bloudy broiles of factious sidings.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxviii. 491 Nor indeed is there any thing which had bred more Distempers in the Body of Learning, than Factions and Sidings.

a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 67 It..maketh a disorder amongst the Children and Servants, and it may be, a siding.

1698 J. Hancock Great Duty of Thankfulness 19 How happy were it could we at last see all factious Sidings both in Church and State, buried in perpetual Oblivion.

1717 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 323 What gatherings there have been, and sidings of great men mixing themselves in every case almost.

?1720 E. Moises Let. to Parishioners 32 The holy Apostle..considering the Nature and Tendency of Parties, and Sideings,..gives the Romans a strict Caution.

1854 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 35/1 A people that..never had a sect or separated party among them, but abhorred all factions and sidings in religion.

(b) With against or with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporting or encouraging > taking someone's part

stickling1589

siding1611

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xlviii. 265/2 Sometimes by allurements to assay to corrupt them; sometimes by a subtill siding with one faction of the Church, as he did with the Catholike against the Arrians.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 226 It shadeth the minde from the inconveniences of Quarrells, Disputes, Sidings with Opinions.

1684 R. Baxter Catholick Communion 10 All Christians must earnestly oppose Divisions, and Sects, and sidings with Strife and Envy.

1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Life in Wks. 994 For my Pressing the same thing over and over again, so often to them, look'd all this while like a Siding with the Enemy.

1743 J. White Let. to Gentleman dissenting from Church of Eng. 63 That a Wife should..endeavour to engage the Children and Servants of the Family in sidings against him.

1806 Belligerent Rights Asserted & Vindicated 57 It is sufficient that to benefit one side and to injure the other, is to take a part in the war, is a siding with one of the parties.

1852 R. Hildreth Hist. U.S.A. VI. xx. 49 Such an embargo..would have been not only a siding with Great Britain, but a gratuitous and unnecessary surrender to her of the whole carrying trade.

1901 E. A. Dix Old Bowen's Legacy xii. 186 In the final analysis it was rather a siding against her husband than a siding with her.

1952 N.Y. Times 6 Oct. 24/7 A vote against the same party is a siding with justice, a meting out of a just reward to the evildoers.

2013 J. Scourfield et al. Muslim Childhood vii. 153 There tended to be a siding with some elements of a Western liberal feminist equal opportunity agenda.

†3. The action of moving or turning to the side; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun]

by-start1542

siding1646

crab1929

sidewinding1930

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 62 The variation of the compasse is..a deflexion and siding East and West from the true meridian.

1894 Daily News 7 July 6/6 When the bell rings to clear the course, there is again the ‘siding’ of the little boats to watch.

4. Chiefly English regional (northern). With away, up. The action of tidying up or clearing away; esp. the action of clearing away dishes, etc., after a meal. Cf. side v.¹ 11. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > putting in order or making tidy > an act of

redd1846

siding1848

tidy1909

1848 Liverpool Mercury 9 May 4/1 Mischiefs of ‘Siding Up.’—There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. ii. 39 Whenever things are mislaid, I know it has been Miss Hilton's evening for siding away!

1870 We got Agate of Singing ii. 19 She's no time for ‘siding up’, as you call it.

1912 W. S. Houghton Hindle Wakes ii. 53 Come now, lass, be sharp with your siding away.

II. Concrete uses.

†a. The side of something. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything

sideeOE

cheeka1400

coasta1400

wing?1482

flank1624

siding1627

broadside1632

1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xlii. §2 The forme thereof is Triangle, and differs not much in the Sidings.

b. Chiefly U.S. The boarding forming the outer sides of a building, weatherboarding; similar material forming the outer part of a boat's hull. Also as a count noun: a piece of this. Cf. side v.¹ 2.Formerly of timber, now typically of aluminium.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > bargeboards, etc.

wind-barge1603

waterbargea1613

barge-course1668

roll1810

valley-board1823

verge-board1827

siding1829

barge-board1833

verge1833

verge-boarding1835

parge-board1840

snowboard1876

hollow roll1904

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for building > weatherboard

weatherboard1539

clove-board1561

clapboard1641

cloe-board1666

siding1829

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for building > weatherboard > collectively

clapholt1477

clapboard1543

clove-board1561

siding1874

1829 J. F. Cooper Wept of Wish-ton-wish I. xvii. 246 [Dwellings] constructed of a firm frame-work, neatly covered with sidings of boards.

1866 Morning Star 31 Dec. The necessities of heat in the tropical department enforce the use of large quantities of wood for flooring, sidings [etc.].

1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting iv. 89 Strips of weather-boarding, or ‘siding’, as it is called out West, may be made to take their place.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 72/2 The new Cedargrain Asbestos Siding Shingles and Clapboards..can be applied over old shingles or siding.

2002 D. Corley Double Murder New Orleans xviii. 76 She had a round hull constructed of wooden strips of shiplap siding.

2012 Dwell Apr. 42/1 Instead of the clapboard siding or shingles common in the region, the architects devised a rain screen of Atlantic white cedar.

c. Australian and New Zealand. A slope or declivity; = sideling n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun]

hield943

lithOE

pendanta1387

bankc1390

slentc1400

shoring1567

rist1577

inclining1596

slope1626

side-slip1649

slant1655

sideling1802

hang1808

siding1852

counterslope1853

bajada1866

tilt1903

palaeoslope1957

1852 Hobarton Guardian (Austral.) 26 May 4/1 No culverts on the ‘sidings’ of the hills along which the roads passed.

1891 G. Chamier Philosopher Dick i. xiii. 360 He told him to mind the siding by the shoot.

1902 H. Lawson Joe Wilson in Prose Wks. (1946) 350 The dark box-scrub-covered ridges ended in steep ‘sidings’ coming down to the creek-bank.

1931 F. D. Davison Man-shy (1934) xii. 165 The scrubbers were grazing along an ironbark siding.

1975 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 27/2 The animal which grazes mostly on non-treated areas—such as gullies or sidings—..will not be fully protected.

2013 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 5 There were some paddocks which had steep sidings or hill faces where the tractor couldn't go.

6. Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding. The width of a timber or other structural member, contrasted with its depth (see moulding n.¹ 4b) or length. Cf. siding dimension n. at Compounds, sided adj. 4.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > a plank > dimensions contrary to direction of moulding

siding1766

siding dimension1830

1766 W. Sutherland Ship-builder's Assistant (new ed.) v. 70 Articles respecting the Sheer-Plane...The Depth of the Keel, and its Siding, or Breadth at Midships.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 399/2 Set off in the half-breadth plan the siding of the middle and after fashion-piece, which may be 13 inches each.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding iv. 72 The body post, while retaining a very large siding, has a comparatively small moulding.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 10 The logs should be about 14 or 16 inches siding.

1987 P. G. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War i. 25/1 The hawse pieces were made from oak, sawn to the required siding and moulding.

2001 S. McGrail Boats of World iv. 150/1 Mortises averaged 43 mm broad (siding) and 80 mm deep.

a. A short length of railway track connected to an adjacent through line (often at one end only), used for storing and shunting rolling stock and for enabling trains on the same line to pass each other; a similar line on a tramway.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > siding

siding1825

sideling1828

sidetrack1828

sideline1831

passing place1841

shunt line1904

lay-by1906

1825 N. Wood Pract. Treat. Railroads 299 BB¹ is a siding or passing for the carriages going in opposite directions.

1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) iv. 50 The carriages, after being unhooked,..are rapidly carried off into the sidings.

1850 Mechanics' Mag. Nov. 370 Beckers' self-acting siding-stop.

1893 Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton) 24 June 5/7 Whether the tramway siding situated in Commerical-road, opposite the Church, is intended for cars to stop on, or is it placed there for ornament.

1929 Financial Times 17 Dec. 4/7 South Lynn is to have additional sidings and goods shed accommodation.

1974 U. K. Le Guin Dispossessed (1975) viii.212 The train sat hour after hour on the siding between a scarred and dusty quarry and a shut-down mill.

1989 V. S. Pritchett Chekhov v.55 Another train, and from the siding he sees the boundless steppe.

2007 A. McDermott Hunt for Atlantis vi. 101 He saw the fleeing driver running towards a signal cabin near the end of the sidings.

b. An area at the side of a canal which allows vessels to pass each other or stop.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > passing-place

siding1852

turn-out1898

1852 Mechanics' Mag. July 4 Passing-places or sidings, to enable trains of boats going in opposite direction to meet and pass each other.

1883 L. L. Dillwyn Speech Parl. 19 July To increase the carrying capacity of the Canal..in deepening the channel, or by adding sidings.

1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands xxvi. 289 A paved slipway led to the water here, and the canal broadened to a siding or back-water in which lay seven or eight more barges in tiers.

2005 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 7 Jan. 1 Doing all sorts of jobs from farm work to snow ploughing for the Council, cutting canal sidings and repairing machinery.

c. Esp. in southern Africa: a scheduled stop on a railway line, typically unmanned and in open country, for farming produce to be loaded, passengers taken on board, etc. Frequently in the names of such stops.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey

gist?c1225

mansiona1382

baiting1477

station1578

mansion place1584

manzil1619

night stop1787

gite1798

outspan1821

halting-place1826

stopping-place1827

stepping-stone1849

waypoint1860

landing-place1861

stop-off1869

stop-over1881

siding1896

half-way1897

sit-down1898

pull-up1899

1896 Central Afr. Planter 16 Mar. (News Suppl.) 132/2 Besides the two termini, sidings can be put up wherever needed with a small shelter from the weather, and hand signals so that intending passengers may signal their presence.

1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk xv. 144 You will run past America and Jordaan Sidings—empty voids, where nothing but a station signboard notifies the fact that they have been stopping-places for trains in some other age.

1919 R. Y. Stormberg With Love from Gwenno 75 To-morrow I shall stand shivering at that old siding down the valley, waiting for the train to bear me away from this dear wretched old place.

1960 J. Cope Tame Ox 67 Voices were singing outside as she awoke, a gang of labourers loading bales of hides into a truck at the siding.

1996 Sunday Times of Zambia 16 June 1/3 Recently 23 people died after two trains collided at Mukwela siding.

Compounds

siding dimension n. Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding = sense 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > a plank > dimensions contrary to direction of moulding

siding1766

siding dimension1830

1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. ii. i. 157 The hanging under the rabbet is equal to the siding; it should therefore be in depth equal to its siding dimension.

2013 W. L. Crothers Amer.-built Packets & Freighters 1850s xv. 199/1 In all beams the siding dimension was constant throughout the length of the beam.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	siding
释义	sidingn. Brit. /ˈsʌɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/ Forms: late Middle English sidyng, 1600s syding, 1600s–1800s sideing, 1600s– siding. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side n.¹, -ing suffix¹; side v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < side n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, and partly < side v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. I. The action or an act of side v.¹ †1. a. Perhaps: the repairing or forming of the sides of a ploughshare. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1432 Bailiff's Acct., Grantchester in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) For sidyng of ij scharys there. b. Perhaps: the action of providing a plot of land with visible edges. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > field systems > laying out fields siding1610 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Collaterage Actiue, as siding, furrowing,..impayling, immuring [etc.]. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 139/1 Collaterage, is Siding, Furrowing, Hedging, Girding, Bordering, Lying, Bounding, Extending between such places. c. U.S. The action or process of trimming the sides of timber to give it the desired width. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > dressing timber slabbing1703 siding1824 1824 Mechanic's Mag. 15 May 150/1 Many a piece of valuable compass timber is spoiled for particular purposes, by taking off so much in the siding of the piece. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2175/1 Siding,..that part of the operation of forming or trimming ship's timbers, etc., which consists in giving them their correct breadths. 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 5 Nov. The machinery first put in included a mulay and a siding mill. 2. a. The action of taking sides in a conflict or debate; one's allegiance or loyalty in a dispute; partisanship, factionalism.Common in the 17th cent. (a) Without construction. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism partiality1520 partaking1533 factiona1538 factiousness1572 siding1600 side-taking1626 parting1652 partying1681 party spirit1705 party1726 party feeling1796 partyism1831 partisanship1834 factionism1848 partisanism1850 factionalism1855 partisanry1889 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 12 The desire of soveraigntie..perplexed their minds. But as yet, there was no banding nor siding from any one person in particular [L. necdum ad singulos..pervenerat]. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Heb. x. 25) It was then, it was afterwards, and is still in these siding and separating times. a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. iv. 57 For Sideing is a madnes, where the Hand Acts to a Somewhat we but vnderstand In the Relations. 1661 R. Baxter Last Work of Believer in Wks. (1846) 255 She was seriously religious without any taint of siding or faction. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 154 They had been removed on account of their siding in the aforemention'd Rebellion. 1823 Christian's Pocket Mag. Nov. 613 The Wesleyan Missionaries have been thrown into prison, on account of their siding in the late rebellions of the slaves, in Demerara. 2007 D. E. Davis Tomorrow is Better 33 He knew their names, addresses, families, companies, and most of all, their siding in the war. (b) With against or with. ΚΠ 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. 864 Their siding with the Romane enemies [L. quod hostibus se Romanorum iunxissent] should not be laid to their charge. 1623 T. Powell Attourneys Acad. 18 Any other apparant cause of partiality, or siding with eyther party. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 421 By reason of his siding with the Muscovian Merchants. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 219 Roe was a close Servant of Monmouth's: Which comes vile near siding against his Master and Benefactor, the Duke of York. 1749 tr. J. B. L. Crevier Rom. Hist. XIV. xlvii. 223 His aversion to Pompey..did not prevent his siding with him, as soon as he saw him at the head of the honester part. 1837 W. Wallace Contin. Mackintosh's Hist. Eng. VII. x. 365 His siding in council with lord Halifax. 1881 W. D. Howells Dr. Breen's Practice iv. 71 You're very kind!..And you'll forgive my siding against you? 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Jan. 6/1 The clear-headed parish priest, whose siding heart and soul with his people is to my mind proof conclusive that they have right on their side. 1908 Spink & Son's Numismatic Circ. Sept. 10859/1 He issued a medal of Duke John George I. of Saxony on his siding in war against the Emperor. 1972 Internat. Organization 26 iv. 696 Heath can afford himself the luxury of siding with Brandt. 2010 Afr. Today 57 ii. 16 The siding of ECOWAS leaders with one faction or the other unnecessarily escalated the conflict. b. An instance of taking or forming sides; a side or faction in a conflict or debate.Common in the 17th cent. †(a) Without construction. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism > instance of siding1603 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Ep. Ded. p. i The turbulent tempests and bloudy broiles of factious sidings. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxviii. 491 Nor indeed is there any thing which had bred more Distempers in the Body of Learning, than Factions and Sidings. a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 67 It..maketh a disorder amongst the Children and Servants, and it may be, a siding. 1698 J. Hancock Great Duty of Thankfulness 19 How happy were it could we at last see all factious Sidings both in Church and State, buried in perpetual Oblivion. 1717 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 323 What gatherings there have been, and sidings of great men mixing themselves in every case almost. ?1720 E. Moises Let. to Parishioners 32 The holy Apostle..considering the Nature and Tendency of Parties, and Sideings,..gives the Romans a strict Caution. 1854 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 35/1 A people that..never had a sect or separated party among them, but abhorred all factions and sidings in religion. (b) With against or with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporting or encouraging > taking someone's part stickling1589 siding1611 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xlviii. 265/2 Sometimes by allurements to assay to corrupt them; sometimes by a subtill siding with one faction of the Church, as he did with the Catholike against the Arrians. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 226 It shadeth the minde from the inconveniences of Quarrells, Disputes, Sidings with Opinions. 1684 R. Baxter Catholick Communion 10 All Christians must earnestly oppose Divisions, and Sects, and sidings with Strife and Envy. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Life in Wks. 994 For my Pressing the same thing over and over again, so often to them, look'd all this while like a Siding with the Enemy. 1743 J. White Let. to Gentleman dissenting from Church of Eng. 63 That a Wife should..endeavour to engage the Children and Servants of the Family in sidings against him. 1806 Belligerent Rights Asserted & Vindicated 57 It is sufficient that to benefit one side and to injure the other, is to take a part in the war, is a siding with one of the parties. 1852 R. Hildreth Hist. U.S.A. VI. xx. 49 Such an embargo..would have been not only a siding with Great Britain, but a gratuitous and unnecessary surrender to her of the whole carrying trade. 1901 E. A. Dix Old Bowen's Legacy xii. 186 In the final analysis it was rather a siding against her husband than a siding with her. 1952 N.Y. Times 6 Oct. 24/7 A vote against the same party is a siding with justice, a meting out of a just reward to the evildoers. 2013 J. Scourfield et al. Muslim Childhood vii. 153 There tended to be a siding with some elements of a Western liberal feminist equal opportunity agenda. †3. The action of moving or turning to the side; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] by-start1542 siding1646 crab1929 sidewinding1930 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 62 The variation of the compasse is..a deflexion and siding East and West from the true meridian. View more context for this quotation 1894 Daily News 7 July 6/6 When the bell rings to clear the course, there is again the ‘siding’ of the little boats to watch. 4. Chiefly English regional (northern). With away, up. The action of tidying up or clearing away; esp. the action of clearing away dishes, etc., after a meal. Cf. side v.¹ 11. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > putting in order or making tidy > an act of redd1846 siding1848 tidy1909 1848 Liverpool Mercury 9 May 4/1 Mischiefs of ‘Siding Up.’—There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. ii. 39 Whenever things are mislaid, I know it has been Miss Hilton's evening for siding away! 1870 We got Agate of Singing ii. 19 She's no time for ‘siding up’, as you call it. 1912 W. S. Houghton Hindle Wakes ii. 53 Come now, lass, be sharp with your siding away. II. Concrete uses. 5. †a. The side of something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything sideeOE cheeka1400 coasta1400 wing?1482 flank1624 siding1627 broadside1632 1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xlii. §2 The forme thereof is Triangle, and differs not much in the Sidings. b. Chiefly U.S. The boarding forming the outer sides of a building, weatherboarding; similar material forming the outer part of a boat's hull. Also as a count noun: a piece of this. Cf. side v.¹ 2.Formerly of timber, now typically of aluminium. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > bargeboards, etc. wind-barge1603 waterbargea1613 barge-course1668 roll1810 valley-board1823 verge-board1827 siding1829 barge-board1833 verge1833 verge-boarding1835 parge-board1840 snowboard1876 hollow roll1904 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for building > weatherboard weatherboard1539 clove-board1561 clapboard1641 cloe-board1666 siding1829 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for building > weatherboard > collectively clapholt1477 clapboard1543 clove-board1561 siding1874 1829 J. F. Cooper Wept of Wish-ton-wish I. xvii. 246 [Dwellings] constructed of a firm frame-work, neatly covered with sidings of boards. 1866 Morning Star 31 Dec. The necessities of heat in the tropical department enforce the use of large quantities of wood for flooring, sidings [etc.]. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting iv. 89 Strips of weather-boarding, or ‘siding’, as it is called out West, may be made to take their place. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 72/2 The new Cedargrain Asbestos Siding Shingles and Clapboards..can be applied over old shingles or siding. 2002 D. Corley Double Murder New Orleans xviii. 76 She had a round hull constructed of wooden strips of shiplap siding. 2012 Dwell Apr. 42/1 Instead of the clapboard siding or shingles common in the region, the architects devised a rain screen of Atlantic white cedar. c. Australian and New Zealand. A slope or declivity; = sideling n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] hield943 lithOE pendanta1387 bankc1390 slentc1400 shoring1567 rist1577 inclining1596 slope1626 side-slip1649 slant1655 sideling1802 hang1808 siding1852 counterslope1853 bajada1866 tilt1903 palaeoslope1957 1852 Hobarton Guardian (Austral.) 26 May 4/1 No culverts on the ‘sidings’ of the hills along which the roads passed. 1891 G. Chamier Philosopher Dick i. xiii. 360 He told him to mind the siding by the shoot. 1902 H. Lawson Joe Wilson in Prose Wks. (1946) 350 The dark box-scrub-covered ridges ended in steep ‘sidings’ coming down to the creek-bank. 1931 F. D. Davison Man-shy (1934) xii. 165 The scrubbers were grazing along an ironbark siding. 1975 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 27/2 The animal which grazes mostly on non-treated areas—such as gullies or sidings—..will not be fully protected. 2013 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 5 There were some paddocks which had steep sidings or hill faces where the tractor couldn't go. 6. Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding. The width of a timber or other structural member, contrasted with its depth (see moulding n.¹ 4b) or length. Cf. siding dimension n. at Compounds, sided adj. 4. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > a plank > dimensions contrary to direction of moulding siding1766 siding dimension1830 1766 W. Sutherland Ship-builder's Assistant (new ed.) v. 70 Articles respecting the Sheer-Plane...The Depth of the Keel, and its Siding, or Breadth at Midships. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 399/2 Set off in the half-breadth plan the siding of the middle and after fashion-piece, which may be 13 inches each. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding iv. 72 The body post, while retaining a very large siding, has a comparatively small moulding. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 10 The logs should be about 14 or 16 inches siding. 1987 P. G. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War i. 25/1 The hawse pieces were made from oak, sawn to the required siding and moulding. 2001 S. McGrail Boats of World iv. 150/1 Mortises averaged 43 mm broad (siding) and 80 mm deep. 7. a. A short length of railway track connected to an adjacent through line (often at one end only), used for storing and shunting rolling stock and for enabling trains on the same line to pass each other; a similar line on a tramway. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > siding siding1825 sideling1828 sidetrack1828 sideline1831 passing place1841 shunt line1904 lay-by1906 1825 N. Wood Pract. Treat. Railroads 299 BB¹ is a siding or passing for the carriages going in opposite directions. 1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) iv. 50 The carriages, after being unhooked,..are rapidly carried off into the sidings. 1850 Mechanics' Mag. Nov. 370 Beckers' self-acting siding-stop. 1893 Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton) 24 June 5/7 Whether the tramway siding situated in Commerical-road, opposite the Church, is intended for cars to stop on, or is it placed there for ornament. 1929 Financial Times 17 Dec. 4/7 South Lynn is to have additional sidings and goods shed accommodation. 1974 U. K. Le Guin Dispossessed (1975) viii.212 The train sat hour after hour on the siding between a scarred and dusty quarry and a shut-down mill. 1989 V. S. Pritchett Chekhov v.55 Another train, and from the siding he sees the boundless steppe. 2007 A. McDermott Hunt for Atlantis vi. 101 He saw the fleeing driver running towards a signal cabin near the end of the sidings. b. An area at the side of a canal which allows vessels to pass each other or stop. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > passing-place siding1852 turn-out1898 1852 Mechanics' Mag. July 4 Passing-places or sidings, to enable trains of boats going in opposite direction to meet and pass each other. 1883 L. L. Dillwyn Speech Parl. 19 July To increase the carrying capacity of the Canal..in deepening the channel, or by adding sidings. 1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands xxvi. 289 A paved slipway led to the water here, and the canal broadened to a siding or back-water in which lay seven or eight more barges in tiers. 2005 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 7 Jan. 1 Doing all sorts of jobs from farm work to snow ploughing for the Council, cutting canal sidings and repairing machinery. c. Esp. in southern Africa: a scheduled stop on a railway line, typically unmanned and in open country, for farming produce to be loaded, passengers taken on board, etc. Frequently in the names of such stops. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey gist?c1225 mansiona1382 baiting1477 station1578 mansion place1584 manzil1619 night stop1787 gite1798 outspan1821 halting-place1826 stopping-place1827 stepping-stone1849 waypoint1860 landing-place1861 stop-off1869 stop-over1881 siding1896 half-way1897 sit-down1898 pull-up1899 1896 Central Afr. Planter 16 Mar. (News Suppl.) 132/2 Besides the two termini, sidings can be put up wherever needed with a small shelter from the weather, and hand signals so that intending passengers may signal their presence. 1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk xv. 144 You will run past America and Jordaan Sidings—empty voids, where nothing but a station signboard notifies the fact that they have been stopping-places for trains in some other age. 1919 R. Y. Stormberg With Love from Gwenno 75 To-morrow I shall stand shivering at that old siding down the valley, waiting for the train to bear me away from this dear wretched old place. 1960 J. Cope Tame Ox 67 Voices were singing outside as she awoke, a gang of labourers loading bales of hides into a truck at the siding. 1996 Sunday Times of Zambia 16 June 1/3 Recently 23 people died after two trains collided at Mukwela siding. Compounds siding dimension n. Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding = sense 6. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > a plank > dimensions contrary to direction of moulding siding1766 siding dimension1830 1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. ii. i. 157 The hanging under the rabbet is equal to the siding; it should therefore be in depth equal to its siding dimension. 2013 W. L. Crothers Amer.-built Packets & Freighters 1850s xv. 199/1 In all beams the siding dimension was constant throughout the length of the beam. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sidingadj. Brit. /ˈsʌɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/ Forms: 1600s sideing, 1600s syding, 1600s 1800s– siding. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side v.¹, -ing suffix², side n.¹ Etymology: < side v.¹ + -ing suffix². In sense 1 perhaps directly < side n.¹ + -ing suffix². 1. Of a blow: directed towards or from the side; sidelong. rare. ΚΠ 1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. lxi. f. 201 Nor did he deliuer any downe-right or siding blowes, but onely foynes and thrusts. 1876 Belfast News-Let. 6 Apr. 3/8 He put the helm hard aport, so that she might not give a direct, but a siding blow. 1932 Adams County (Corning, Iowa) Free Press 21 July 7/1 The bat slipped out of the batter's hands and struck young Williams a siding glance on the forehead. †2. a. Characterized by faction, dissent, or the taking of sides; factious, partisan. Obsolete. rare.In early use with modifying word, as close-siding. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [adjective] factious?1527 partakingc1547 sided1603 factionarya1616 sidingc1625 factional1629 partified1715 partisaning1788 partisan1805 c1625 J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 246 It was againe discouered that much secret plottinges and close sideinge practices had bin contriued against him vnderhand. 1680 R. Baxter Moral Prognostication i. xciv. 22 An Opinionative, Modal, and Siding Religiousness, hath ever more Followers..than true Holiness. b. That takes the side or part of a person or cause. Obsolete.In early use with modifying word, as strong-siding. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [adjective] > taking someone's part siding1637 1637 J. Milton Comus 8 The vertuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion Conscience. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 68 There is yet to this our exposition, a stronger siding freind, then any can be an adversary. 1683 R. Baxter Dying Thoughts 256 I dare not call all that my sin which siding men of differing judgments on each side passionately call so. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 150 The antique Chronos and his siding hosts. †3. poetic. That forms an edge or border; bordering. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [adjective] > forming an edge or border borderinga1676 skirtingc1735 siding1850 fringing1888 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 165 Along the sands of the siding deep..he follows me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1432adj.1602
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